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Post by johnfarmersmum on Mar 6, 2010 23:51:26 GMT
6th Feb 78... I was 13.. Mr Blue Sky by ELO was just about in vogue... We had a yellow kit and Alan 'A Court was in charge...
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Post by thickgeordieminor on Mar 7, 2010 0:03:56 GMT
i was 11,and listened to the game on the radio with my dad whos a crazy geordie and life long newcastle united fan,my older brother was at the game and said fans were throwing there scarfs away at the end,dont know how true that was,but i do remember my dad tripping out when alan shoulder got the winner for them,the geordie bastard,my dad bye the way not alan shoulder,he signed for newcastle after the cup run and if my memory serves me right he was shit
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Post by dwr17477 on Mar 7, 2010 0:07:05 GMT
Love ELO!!! Brings back sooo many memories!!! Alan A'Court, RIP. Good man. It was the lowest point we'd got to at that time and Alan Durban came in not long after. My brother tells me that scarves were burnt on The Boothen and season tickets were discarded after that match. And it was on 'Newsround' the following night!!! Fuckers!!! I try to erase the memory, tbh.
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Post by thickgeordieminor on Mar 7, 2010 0:08:42 GMT
i cant eat pacers any more without thinking of them geordie bastards
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Post by victoriaboothenboy on Mar 7, 2010 0:37:50 GMT
Love ELO!!! Brings back sooo many memories!!! Alan A'Court, RIP. Good man. It was the lowest point we'd got to at that time and Alan Durban came in not long after. My brother tells me that scarves were burnt on The Boothen and season tickets were discarded after that match. And it was on 'Newsround' the following night!!! Fuckers!!! I try to erase the memory, tbh. As I walked back towards Stoke Station people were discarding their scarves every few yards. I had a hellluva job picking them up cos even as a mere teenager I knew they would want them back in a couple of weeks |
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Post by dwr17477 on Mar 7, 2010 0:43:12 GMT
Love ELO!!! Brings back sooo many memories!!! Alan A'Court, RIP. Good man. It was the lowest point we'd got to at that time and Alan Durban came in not long after. My brother tells me that scarves were burnt on The Boothen and season tickets were discarded after that match. And it was on 'Newsround' the following night!!! Fuckers!!! I try to erase the memory, tbh. As I walked back towards Stoke Station people were discarding their scarves every few yards. I had a hellluva job picking them up cos even as a mere teenager I knew they would want them back in a couple of weeks Ah, was the burning of scarves The Shit fans on the away end in 1974 ??? |
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Post by blackpooltower on Mar 7, 2010 0:50:35 GMT
I remember that night too well! Was 12 and submerged my (battery) radio in the bath when BS went 3-2 up. As a young lad, the ribbing at school from Man Ure, Scouse baskets et al was too much and don't mention Telford or Nuneaton Boro please either or Swansea or Hartlepool or Blackpool or.....................
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Post by mumf14 on Mar 7, 2010 0:50:23 GMT
I used to have a comb and toothbrush in those days..........
Memories...
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Post by march4 on Mar 7, 2010 0:58:44 GMT
It was a new start for the club.
We had a new manager and a new yellow and blue kit.
Both were ditched for the next game ;D
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Post by njkk on Mar 7, 2010 1:00:38 GMT
I just remember going to work the day after and this Fail fan had sewn a patch on his scarf with Blythe Spartans on it, and was bouncing around as if Fail had won the cup.
I'd never really thought of Vale as anything but a local team who I liked to see do well until that point, since that day I realised that they really hated us more than they loved their own team, I still see the sad sack now and again when I go for pint in Burslem, he's probably still got that scarf and still living with his mum from the look of him.
Its been a bloody longtime coming for Stoke to get this far in the FA cup, as they say our name really should be on it, please let it be this year
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Post by hamburgpotter on Mar 7, 2010 6:02:05 GMT
Its true about the scarfs on the pitch, I,d just bought a new one hoping it was my LUCKY scarf that was going to take us to Wembley (I know where Mancini got it from now but I cant ever remember meeting him! ha ha), and when Blyth Spartans did there lap of honour after the match my scarf was on the pitch and guess who picked it up ?? Alan Shoulder, always wondered what he did with it afterwards, probably hanging on his wall next to his other footy memrobelia. I also swore never to call any of my kids ROGER!!when I started breeding.
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Post by sheikh al dubai bin stokie on Mar 7, 2010 6:32:50 GMT
i have successfully purged memories of this fateful day... thanks for bringing them up again ;D
didnt go to the game, but i remember being incredibly upset... i was 8
id like to think that the butler street roof blew off during this game, just for simplicity
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Post by calgarystoker on Mar 7, 2010 6:48:20 GMT
i was there as a twelve year old with me dad on the old stoke end thats where we stood with a load of stokies till that following season then in the boothen loads of lads the same age from bucknall and the abbey went them days so we just consoled each other at shool that things could only get better its taken some time .
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Post by JoeinOz on Mar 7, 2010 7:34:23 GMT
Boothen Paddock. The Blyth fans in the stand above us were singing 'Easy easy' like Big Daddy used to. Shit memory.
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Post by mumph on Mar 7, 2010 7:37:15 GMT
I think I listened to it on the radio - I think I cried.
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Post by Cyprusdelilah on Mar 7, 2010 9:28:29 GMT
Also went that match I was 13, all I can seem to remember of after the match was a deafly silence were I was. Plus this man walking towards me with these big black framed glasses and jam jarred bottomed lenses.
Has he passed me tut,tut,tin..
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Post by Binndy on Mar 7, 2010 10:34:00 GMT
I was there with my grandad . I really miss him. He was a business man in stafford and had, had, a season tickets for decades. I think he is still at every home match in spirit.
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Post by JoeinOz on Mar 7, 2010 10:35:04 GMT
It was postponed twice I think.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 7, 2010 11:30:35 GMT
Funny how these things live with you. The following day I remember taking the very deliberate decision to wear my Stoke scarf into school (full of Mancs and Scousers) and take the flak early and get it over and done with !!
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Post by march4 on Mar 7, 2010 12:20:02 GMT
We were 2-1 up with only a few minutes left.
When they equalised it was bad enough and I remember thinking how embarrassing that we would have to replay.
Then they scored AGAIN!!!!
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